Nagatsuka Takashi's novel The Soil, published in Japan in 1910, provides a moving and sensitive but unsentimental portrait of rural peasant life in Japan during the Meiji era. The community described is the author's native place, and the characters whose lives are described in vivid detail over a period of years are drawn from life.
The Soil
About the Book
Table of Contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Translator's Introduction
Glossary of Japanese Terms
The Soil
Translator's Note
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